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November 22, 2005

A Republican gets on board with Murtha

Interesting:

But Gilchrest, himself a former Marine and Vietnam veteran, said Monday that the resolution had asked too simple a question.

"That was the wrong thing to vote on. That was not what Murtha wanted to do. That was a political vote, for whatever reason, by Republican leadership," Gilchrest said.

Murtha's public statements were valuable, Gilchrest said, as a hint to America's various enemies in Iraq that U.S. forces, their common enemy, would not be in the country forever.

"What Murtha did was send a signal to these disparate organizations that normally hate each other but have come together" to fight the United States, Gilchrest said. "That dissipates some of their strength."

That's a new twist on the basic argument that the US presence in the region is escalating terrorist recruitment and terrorist acts.

On a side note, Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (OH-2) was the culprit who brought the House to a standstill the other day by smearing Murtha on the House floor. Schmidt trotted out the name of Marine Colonel Danny Bubp, a 30 year Marine.

Oddly..in those 30 years of Marine service, Col Bubp managed to miss every single military engagement. His service bio:

Military Service : 1978 - Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps 1978-Present - Continues to serve in United States Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel of Marines 1997-Present - Serves on the staff at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C. as Team Leader for the Reserve Component National Security Course 2003 - Graduate of Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 2003 - Served on the J-3 Staff at United States Central Command, Tampa, Florida for General Tommy Franks in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom

How does a guy spend 30 years in the Marines and not manage to participate in any combat? And how in the hell does it qualify him to critique anyone that has?

What a dick.

Weird how so many combat veterans are at least willing to consider that we've got to make changes in how we're doing things in Iraq...while these pretenders like Bubp and 5-deferrment Cheney spout otherwise.

Posted by Carla at November 22, 2005 03:24 PM